This is a new site which addresses a new (and hopefully interesting!) theme in US history, one at a time in 5 installments plus a quiz which you can use to test your knowledge at any time. Each day's information is presented on one relatively brief page, avoiding information overload by favoring interesting and little-known information while providing links to related information of special interest (the best we could find).
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Current Series: Choosing a President With the US presidential selection process in full swing (for better or worse), we review the origins of our sometimes confusing method of selecting a president. The starting point is the US Constitution and its "electoral" system. Other topics include who was allowed to vote for President in the first election (it was up to each state and varied widely) and changes later made to include blacks and women. Finally, we will take a look at how eager the US citizenry is to vote and how this has changed over the years. We hope you gain useful insight from this series,
Choosing a President. Included are brief articles about the words
Gerrymandering and
Suffrage.
For the previous series of articles, follow this link to
Honoring the Dead of War, and you can always use the "Daily US History Topics" found at the top right of every page on this site.
